I have been so busy this year between my regular job, my freelance work, and Wedding Preparations

I barely had a chance to participate this year and am shocked that my stupid video made the top 10! I wish I had time to vote properly, but I couldn't see everything in one good sitting, so I wasn't as active as I could have been otherwise.

Congratulations to the winners and to all entries! Some great stuff this year.

I think we should have informal "Challenges" once a month like happens in a lot of 3D Art Forums. No prizes or anything, just a random theme and a timeframe.

They're fun and sometimes you learn stuff because the theme often forces you to try new things. Fractal themes might include stuff like Architectural, Tree - Like, Faces, Humor, Lissa (or - if you must - other image work in orbit traps), or even just a specific color schemes, specific software (problematic due to operating system differences and if a program is free or not). Stuff like that.

and no, i got your messy bib, but i thought the sponsoring is well suited for such "tiny" prizes as cups with images i would love to have some reasonable holographic printing or stuff to offer in store, but i didnt felt like intervening toomuch in that and i would just get busy with too much sponsors, perhaps i should make a special sponsoring depositon paypal, so that anyone who feels like it can donate money to the forums, and after a year this could be usedfor the prizes of next year

@sock feel free to organize such topics monthly/quarterly problem is to make up the gallery section for it or do it by keywordings, this way only a thread with reference to the corresponding images wouldbe great, if you like i can make boards for such things...like

I had proposed to Christian to contribute to the winner's prizes before the contest, but it seems my note went through the cracks. Then after I won, I proposed him again to contribute (in other words to pay for my own mug!) but he refused!! So thank you very much again for your generosity, I will donate to FF for the next site update!

you can do print animations on cups, dont know exactly how it is called, but a 5 image sequence is possible to bad the only printer for this is a company in taiwan which as many as 2.0000 as minimum amount

Here it is with some of its friends... My 3D printed mandelbulbs and my winning image for the 'Mandelbrot Tribute Contest' @ DA in the background.

It has been a long wait, but it was worth it!The MUG, the precious MUG arrived last week.Thank you Christian, thank you GFWorld for sponsoring the prizes, thank you Jesse, Luca and all you mathematic geniouses!And thank you voters!